Episode Two: The Missing Beaumont Children

 

On January 26 1966, Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont left their home to celebrate Australia Day with a day at Glenelg beach. When the children didn’t return two hours later as promised, their mother assumed that the children either missed the bus or decided to walk home. When they hadn’t returned home by nightfall, Nancy and Jim Beaumont reported the children missing to the police. Though many witnesses reported seeing the children that day, no evidence was ever found to explain what happened to them.

Where did they go? Who was responsible?

Some of our research

The overview
The story
The suspects

Episode One: Lori Erica Ruff

After her suicide in 2010, Lori Erica Ruff (nee Kennedy) was discovered by her estranged husband's family to have been living under a false name, and that her real name was Becky Sue Turner. Or was it? It seems that Becky Sue Turner in fact died in a house fire in 1971, aged 2.

So who was Lori Erica Ruff?

Some of our research

Seattle Times article
Source Documents
Timeline